The Only Use of
octave
in
Brave New World
- The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag-beetle.†
p. 61..8
Definition:
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(octave as in: has a four-octave range) an interval of tones with the pitch at the high end being twice that at the low end -- 8 notes on the familiar diatonic scale